Facebook fan's challenge to meet 730 friends face-to-face

A social media fan has set himself a challenge to be reunited with every single one of his 730 Facebook friends in person. Daniel Shaw, 38, has Facebook friends all over the world and has vowed to meet each one face-to-face. The youth worker has set himself the challenge of meeting at least 730 within a year – meaning he needs...

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Colorado man posts on Facebook moments before murdering daughter

Merrick McKoy allegedly shot and killed 19-month-old Mia McKoy-Phanthavongsa. He wrote on Facebook moments before shooting her that his relationship with the girl’s mother was the motive. The chilling message: ‘I told u I can’t live without u lol u thought I was joking now me n Mia out this b----.’ A jilted Colorado man captured the...

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£60,000 worth of bank notes found floating in Lincolnshire river by dog walker

Police have launched an investigation after banknotes worth tens of thousands of pounds were mysteriously found floating down a river. Detectives are liaising with the Bank of England after £60,000 worth of damaged notes were seen floating in the water by a stunned dog walker - but so far there are no clues to where it has come from.  The...

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Naked woman boards Chicago subway, claims to be ‘Goddess of the Train’

  The 31-year-old woman, who was not identified, was nude when she entered the L Train at the Granville station on Saturday. She allegedly told riders to leave the train as she headed towards the motorman's car, where she planned to take over the controls. A 31-year-old woman was tossed in a psychiatric ward after she boarded...

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Florida teen who fatally shot commissioner dad after insult over Megan Fox is guilty of murder

Jason Beckman, now 21, who killed his father, South Miami city commissioner Jay Beckman, after his father joked that he couldn’t ‘handle’ the actress, faces life in prison.Jason Beckman was found guilty of first degree murder in the death of his father, South Miami city commissioner Jay Beckman in April 2009.A Florida teen who...

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Sex-change politician says she became lesbian after being raped four years after she became a woman

Britain's first sex-change parliamentarian has told how she became a lesbian after she was raped. Former UKIP MEP Nikki Sinclaire, 45, was born a boy but had gender reassignment surgery on the NHS 18 years ago. Today she revealed how four years after the operation, just as she was beginning to find women attractive, she was raped...

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The rich guys of Instagram show off their incredible wealth with the latest craze in the Persian Gulf for big cats as pets

For mega-wealthy young men of the Gulf Arab states nothing says 'I am rich' more aptly than to Instagram yourself and your lion or cheetah posing alongside your Mercedes or Lamborghini or motoring along in a speedboat. Showing off the Persian Gulf's latest 'ultimate status symbol', the penchant for posting big cat photos on Instagram...

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Get Paid $100 a Day... to Review Public Toilets

 Need some extra cash?  If you live in New York and are willing to spend a lot of time in public restrooms, you can earn $100 a day for reviewing the facilities, the Daily Dot reports. Michael Li, the creator of ToiletFinder.com, which helps people find nearby restrooms, makes the offer on Craigslist: He needs a copywriter...

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Cigarette-smoking toddler who shocked the world with his 40-a-day habit has given up... but now he's addicted to food

At the age of two he shocked the world after being pictured chain-smoking cigarettes. Two years on he's now a normal, cheeky five-year-old - and, while he's managed to kick the habit, he now has another addiction. Food. Aldi Rizal became an international media sensation when he was discovered in a poor village in Sumatra, Indonesia,...

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Salt of the earth: Stunning 5,000-year-old mines inside caves and tunnels in Turkey which are still in use today

From the surface there is nothing special about the hilly countryside around the city of Cankiri in Turkey. However 1,300ft below ground is a stunning salt mine which was first dug by primitive humans around 5,000 years ago. Despite its incredible age the mine is still in use today and produces more then 500 tonnes of salt each year...

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Mother gave away THREE babies by knocking at strangers' door: Heart-warming story of how siblings were reunited after 60 years

No one will ever know what went through the young mother’s mind as she knocked on doors, begging strangers to take her three-month- old daughter. It was the summer of 1946 in the Potteries village of Bucknall. She was turned down twice before the third stranger agreed to take her baby in. At which point Rosemary, then 28,...

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San Antonio Man sentenced to 50 years for child beating

SAN ANTONIO — A man convicted by a jury last month of causing serious bodily injury to a 2-year-old girl, including internal bleeding and broken ribs, was sentenced Friday to 50 years in prison. Jimmy Turner, 32, faced up to life in prison for the first-degree felony. After the guilty verdict, he opted to have state District Judge Maria...

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California teacher accused of sexual 'tasting games' with students to plead no contest to molestation

A once-respected former teacher accused of committing lewd acts on children in what he called "tasting games" is expected to plead no contest Friday to all the charges against him. Mark Berndt, 62, plans to enter the legal equivalent of guilty pleas to 23 charges and receive 25 years in prison, according to John Manly, an attorney...

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Killer driver freed because he's French: Motorist on wrong side of the road forgot he was in Britain, say judges

Alexis Fleury with his girlfriend A driver who killed a father of two by driving on the wrong side of the road has been freed by Appeal Court judges because he is French. Alexis Sebastien Fleury had ‘lower culpability’ for causing the death of 62-year-old David Crane than a British driver would have done, the judges ruled. Mr Crane,...

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Meet UK's most glamorous grandmother 54-year-old beauty queen making a living as a Liz Hurley lookalike

With her wrinkle-free skin, glossy dark mane and mega-watt smile, Annemarie Leak, 54, certainly isn't your average grandmother. Now the Lincolnshire former model and Liz Hurley lookalike has been crowned the UK's most glamorous grandparent and credits her success to being celibate for more than 10 years. But saying that remaining...

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Girl who bedded three men a week named 'Britain's horniest student' in revolting online competition where young women are encouraged to have sex at university for cash prize

A computer science student who boasts of sleeping with up to three men every week has been named Britain's Horniest Student after entering a degrading online competition. Elina Desaine, 20, doesn't even know the names of all her sexual partners, but tries to keep track with handwritten list using descriptions such as 'French guy'...

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Priceless 3,000-year-old statue is stolen from museum in Egypt.

   Egyptian authorities issued an international alert after the limestone carving – called Daughter of the Pharaoh Akhenaten – was taken A priceless 3,000- year-old statue of King Tutankhamun’s sister has been looted from a museum in Egypt. Egyptian authorities issued an international alert after the limestone carving...

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BRITAIN'S dumbest burglars were caught after left his name and address at crime scene

The dozy pair of career criminals left complete contact details after the robbery at the four star Kilburn Guest House in Bridlington, East Yorks.Repeat offender Robert Taylor, 36, had just been released from prison for a previous burglary offence when he and William Shearon, 23, carried out the break-in.The crooks, both from Bridlington,...

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